Five friends were flying kites. Abe’s kite flew up to 15 feet, Beth’s went to 23 feet, Casey’s went to 11 feet, Dave’s went to 31 feet, and Eric’s never left the ground. Write the friend’s names in order from the person whose kite flew the highest to the person whose kite flew the lowest.

The mass of a marine organism, in pounds, p years after it is born is given by the polynomial function r(p) = -4p2 + 300p. find the mass when p = 20 years.

On the way home from visiting his family, vincent’s plane cruised at an altitude of 3.2 × 10^4 feet. he had heard that a man named felix baumgartner skydived from an altitude of 1.28 × 10^5 feet. vincent wants to know how much higher felix went on his skydiving trip. question 1 you have already seen how adding numbers works in either scientific notation or standard notation. but can you subtract numbers in scientific notation and get the same results as subtracting in standard notation? to find out, first solve vincent’s problem in standard notation. part a write the cruising altitude of vincent’s plane in standard notation.

An expression for the average of x 2x and 3y